HISTORY WITH BRETT

U3: BELIEF

Weeks One and Two, Jan. 2-10

Homework Assignments: 

• Journal Response #3

• Journal Response #2
• Journal Response #1
• Writ​e four big picture questions on the notetaker based on the clip we watched of the documentary episode "Story of God (linked here)"

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Week Three, Jan. 13-17

Homework Assignments: 

• Journal Response #7

• Journal Response #6
• Journal Response #5
• Journal Response #4

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U2: POWER

Week Seven: December 16-20

Homework Assignments: ​

• Finish all revisions: FINAL ESSAY DUE AT THE START OF CLASS

• Complete at least half of your revisions

• Finish your draft

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Week Six: December 9-13

Homework Assignments: 

• Write at least one paragraph of your essay 

• Complete pages 6 and 7 of your essay guide 

• Complete the Is Our Democracy Threatened questions and handout or write another scene of your script

• Finish the brainstorming questions in step two of your Roman emperors handout

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Week Four and Five: November 25-December 6 

Homework Assignments: 

• Complete what really happened reading and questions in packet

• ​Make any revisions to your speeches to show mastery of the skills you made goals about. Whole packet due in the next class.

• Complete Speech 4 (and 3 if you did not finish that in class)

• Complete Speech 2

• Complete Speech 1

• Complete Primary Source 2 (Socrates Allegory of the Cave)

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Week Three: November 18-November 22

Homework Assignments: 

• Finish your drawing about the Kush queens or complete the reading and response about racism and sexism in the writing of history on the back of today's handout. 

• Choose one podcast, video or text from www.historywithbrett.com/maya (also emailed to you) and write a summary of what you learned.

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Classwork: ​

• 2.7 Who were the Queens of the Kush Empire?

• 2.8 How did culture and innovation help the Mayan Empire build power?

• 2.9 What conclusions can we draw about power in the earliest empires? 

• 2.10 What is democracy? How will we build our historical skills in a democracy role play?

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Week Two: November 12-November 15

Homework Assignments: 

• Read and annotate the rest of the texts about early empires from the packet you were given in class. 

• Respond to the leadership questions on the back of today's handout. 

• Revise your Unit 1 paragraph

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Classwork: ​

• 2.4 Why were people using power in new ways during the first civilizations? 

• 2.5 What was leadership like in the early empires? 

• 2.6 How was power used in early empires? 

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Week One: November 4-November 8

Homework Assignments: ​

• Choose one additional document from the Power in Early States packet you were given in class. Read and annotate. 

• Power in Song Response: Choose a song that relates to the theme of power and write a response that explains what kind of power it shows.

• Power in Current Events: Pick one current event and explain why you think this shows someone building or using power in the right or wrong way (½ page min. -- also sent as a google form)

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Classwork: 

• 2.1 What is power? 

• 2.2 What is the right and wrong way to use power? 

• 2.3 How was power used in the early states? 

U1: PLACE

Week Eight: October 28-Nov 1 

Homework Assignments: 

• Finish typing all captions and bring in any materials you want to use to create your exhibit with your group tomorrow.

• Finish your presentation script and complete your exhibit! 

• Redo any project parts that you have received feedback on or you know now needs revision.

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Week Seven: October 21-25

Homework Assignments: 

• Finish reading your background information and fill out the organizer on page 8 and 9 of your project guide

• Finish your assigned primary and secondary sources and complete pages 12-14 of your guide

• For each document that you’ve been assigned of the top 5, write a brief summary (about three sentences each) of what the document is about and what category (or categories) of SPICE it fits into.

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Week Six: October 14-18

Homework Assignments: 

• 1/2 to 1 page: What is patriarchy? How did it start and how do we see the effects today?

• Fill in the "effects" column on the right hand side of your SPICE handout

•  Write out a description of your ideal civilization and make a case for why it's the best civilization possible, using cause and effect analysis (about 1 page). 

Block 3+4 you are one day ahead, so you can look to the calendar for next week for Friday's hw. 

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Week Five: October 7-11

Homework Assignments: 

• Complete Progress Report Reflection

• Read through the chart about the Paleolithic and Neolithic Eras. For each area of life, check off which lifestyle was better.

• TIEDIED Paragraph: Was settling down the right decision for humans? Last page of the document organizer

Block 3+4 you are one day ahead, so you can look to the calendar for next week for Friday's hw. 

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Classwork: 

• 1.15 If humans started in Africa, why do people have different skin colors? What does that have to do with race?

• 1.16 Was settling down the right decision for humankind?  

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Week Four: October 2-4

Homework Assignments: 

• Read and response to Warsan Shire's poem "Home" - From what you read, why are people leaving their homes? What do they face when they leave? And what is your reaction to the poem?

• Guided TIEDIED paragraph about migrations, past and present 

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Classwork: 

• 1.13 How did humans end up all around the world if they were first in Africa?

• 1.14 How do migrations today compare to the first migrations out of Africa?

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Week Three: September 23-27

Homework Assignments: 

• Choose one text from the Early Humans page on the class website and write three things you learned. 

• Complete the reading and questions on early human evolution and climate.

• Make a list at least ½ page long: What are all of the ways that people can be affected by a place? Include examples that you heard in today’s podcast

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Classwork: 

• 1.12 How were people affected by place in 2019 CE and 300,000 BCE?

• 1.11 What Makes Humans Human? Class reading from Sapiens: Flat and Mountainous reading levels

• 1.10 How were the first humans affected by place? Handout on adaptations here. 

• 1.9 How do we share our personal stories and listen to others’ respectfully?

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Week Two: September 16-20

Homework Assignments: 

• Finish podcast! Final project is due at the start of class on Monday. 

• Historical Research on your place: Page 12 of your guide

• INTERVIEW(S)! Record your interview(s) and sound clips. In order to receive credit, all audio files MUST be uploaded to your vhs google drive account

• Listen to ten minutes of a podcast from this site or find your own and write down three things you noticed or heard

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Classwork: 

• 1.5 How do we actually make a podcast? 

• 1.6 How do we show cause and effect analysis in our podcast?

• 1.7 How do we edit our audio files into a podcast? 

• 1.8 What are the final touches we need for our podcast? 

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Week One: September 9-13

Homework Assignments: 

• Student Survey

• Signed syllabus

• Classroom Jobs Application

• Question Practice (page 8 and 9 of your guide)

Classwork: 

• 1.1: What questions do we have about early world history?

• 1.2: How do bias and perspective shape history?

• 1.3 Cause and Effect in our classroom: multitasking and classroom norms

• 1.4 How has where we’re from affected our perspective? (Introduction to Podcast